Vendors and Providers

Can anyone catch Apple and Google in the smartphone market?

Apple is riding its iPhone 6 momentum, while Android dominates both market share and growth. Is there room for any other competitors in the smartphone OS market?

What’s a consumer Office 365 subscription worth to Microsoft?

Declines in per-subscriber revenue hints at shift to lower-priced plans

‘Everyone’s going container crazy’

IBM, Google, OpenStack distributor MIrantis all make container news this week

AOL, Apple iTunes connection will soon be history

AOL users will need to get Apple IDs to access iTunes and more as of March 31

ARM, IBM offer starter kit for making IOT devices

Google wants to manage your work email with Inbox

Gmail Inbox could prioritize email from your boss, HR and clients

HP deal marks milestone for open source networking hardware

As disaggregation grows, the days of expensive, proprietary networking hardware are numbered.

Antivirus software is falling behind the bad guys

It can take up to six months for AV software vendors to catch a zero-day exploit.

Microsoft helps Lenovo, deletes Superfish ‘crapware’ and rogue cert

New Windows Defender signature seeks out and destroys spying app and the self-signed certificate at the root of security fiasco

Is the Samsung Galaxy S6 about to become the coolest Android phone ever?

Gauging what a smartphone is going to look like before it's released is sort of like solving one of those toss-up puzzles on Wheel of Fortune – the answer gets clearer the longer you wait.